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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Coach Bert Haines is all smiles about his Varsity contest tomorrow as the Crimson eight goes to the stake with a good chance of bringing home both the Engineers' and the Redmen's crew shirts. Although Cornell is somewhat of an unknown factor in tomorrow's meet, Tech finished only several inches ahead of the Crimson boat in last spring's race. Tech defeated Cornell in the spring contests which Harvard did not enter. The average weights of the two boats are almost identical--Tech weighing in at 178 and Harvard at 177 1/2. In the spring race the weight...
When the end of the European war permits the Army to reduce its 8,000,000 peak (biggest unknown now: the size of the police force required for Europe), the Army will flip through its cards and decide how high a point credit will make men eligible for release. But those who think eligibility will automatically mean quick release may be sadly disappointed...
Last winter McNaughton resigned, giving ill health as the reason (TIME, Jan. 3). The man picked to succeed him was Henry Crerar, then commander of the I Canadian Corps. Publicity-hating General Crerar was almost unknown to the Canadian people, and since many Canadians do not think that being colorful is good form, Ottawa war councilors made no effort to color him up. Although Crerar used to be so reticent that he had no cronies and few close acquaintances, he did become fast friends with Montgomery and renewed his old friendship (from World War I) with Field Marshal Sir Alan...
...English village presented a bill for ten shillings for services rendered: fishing an unknown G.I.'s false teeth out of a drain. Claim paid...
...Germans had done their best to defend Ploesti with heavy smoke screens, a formidable thicket of ack-ack, a strong fleet of fighters. In addition to an unknown total of U.S. airmen killed, the number shot down and captured alive in Rumania was last week disclosed as more than a thousand. The Germans had repaired bomb damage with their usual nimbleness, had covered vital pipelines and machinery with massive roofings of concrete...